Mean years of school completed some questions that

Mean years of school completed?Some questions that can be addressed by analyzing a categoricalvariable in the GSS:Proportion of people who consider themselves “liberal” (NOT slightly or extremely liberal)?Proportion of people who dislike classical music very much?Proportion of those eligible who voted in the 1992 Presidential election?2.Start by analyzing the quantitativevariable. Use Stata to find the sample mean and standard deviation. You can do this by selecting typing tabstat [variablename], statistics(mean sd n)or sum [variablename]Copy and paste the command and results from the Stata results window to the appropriateplace in the output sheet.3.Record the sample mean and standard deviation, along with the sample size, in the space below. (Be sure to label in the unit of the variable.) = 13.05 years of educ,s = 3.05 yearsN = 1602 people4.Now use these known characteristics of the sample to make an inference about the population (all American adults). Specifically, construct a 95%confidence interval for the population mean. Show your work in the space below. Provide a brief interpretation.c.i.= xbar +/- Zalpha/2 Ox= 13.05+/- 1.96(Sx/Squareroot(N)=13.05 +/- 1.96(3.05/40.01)=13.05+/- .149412.90 to 13.199So this can be constructed that there is a 95% confident that the population mean for years in ed lies in between 12.90 and 13.199.5.Now use Stata to construct the 95% confidence interval and check your work above. You can do this by using the meancommand. If the Stata results do not match those you calculated by

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